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Re:Putting Down Elm by seanjh on Monday June 06, 2016 @10:18AM (#11846925)
Haven't used Elm myself, but I assume this argument is based in large part on the strength of the Elm compiler error messages. For example: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/735197548034412546
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Re:Putting Down Elm by Semiapies on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:59AM (#11847721)
That's kind of amazing.
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Re:Putting Down Elm by IanCal on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @02:15AM (#11852735)
Here are some more examples, though are generally more basic errors: http://elm-lang.org/blog/compilers-as-assistants

Overall, I really like the approach of making error messages an important feature. We see them so often that improving them makes the developer experience much better, but I can imagine they're a less 'sexy' task to work on and probably much harder to get right than you'd expect.

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